Today in history: Feb. 19

1807: Former Vice President Aaron Burr, accused of treason, was arrested in the Mississippi Territory, in present-day Alabama. (Burr was acquitted at trial.)

1846: The Texas state government was formally installed in Austin, with J. Pinckney Henderson taking the oath of office as governor.

1878: Thomas Edison received a U.S. patent for “an improvement in phonograph or speaking machines.”

1881: Kansas prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.

1942: President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which cleared the way for the U.S. military to relocate and intern Japanese-Americans. Japanese warplanes raided the Australian city of Darwin; at least 243 people were killed.

1945: During World War II, some 30,000 U.S. Marines began landing on Iwo Jima, where they began a successful monthlong battle to seize control of the island from Japanese forces.

1963: The book “The Feminine Mystique” by Betty Friedan, credited with reviving American feminism, was published by W.W. Norton & Co.

1976: Calling the issuing of Executive Order 9066 “a sad day in American history,” President Gerald Ford issued a proclamation confirming that the order had been terminated with the formal cessation of hostilities of World War II.

1986: The U.S. Senate approved an international treaty outlawing genocide, 83-11, nearly 37 years after the pact had first been submitted for ratification.